Jaafar Mohammed Saad

Jaafar Mohammed Saad (died 6 December 2015) was the Governor of Aden Province in Yemen until his assassination in 2015.

Biography
Jaafar Mohammed Saad was a soldier of South Yemen during the Yemenite War of 1994, which led to the reunification of Yemen by North Yemen. After the war, he lived in exile in Egypt and the United Kingdom before returning home after many years. On 9 October 2015 he became the Governor of Aden Province after serving as a Major-General of the Yemeni Army in the Yemeni Civil War against the Houthis, defending the city of Aden from the terrorists. On 6 December 2015 an Islamic State suicide bomber detonated his suicide belt in the Tawahi district of Aden as Saad's convoy drove by, killing him and six others.